Uttarajjhayana 128.1.1_4

128.1.1_4

U/5 akāmamaraṇijjaṃ pañcamaṃ adhyayanam /
aṇṇavaṃsi mahoghaṃsi | ege tiṇṇe duruttaraṃ /
tattha ege mahāpanne | imaṃ paṇham udāhare ||1||

In this ocean (of life) with its currents (viz. births) difficult to cross, one man has reached the opposite shore; one wise man has given an answer to the following question. (1)
These two ways of life ending with death have been declared: death with one's will, and death against one's will. (2)
Death against one's will is that of ignorant men, and it happens (to the same individual) many times. Death with one's will is that of wise men, and at best it happens but once. (3)
Mahâvîra has (thus) described the first kind in which an ignorant man, being attached to pleasures, does very cruel actions. (4)
A man attached to pleasures and amusements will be caught in the trap (of deceit). (He thinks): 'I never saw the next world, but I have seen with my own eyes the pleasures of this life.' (5)
'The pleasures of this life are (as it were) in your hand, but the future ones are uncertain. Who knows whether there is a next world or not?' (6)
The fool boasts: 'I shall have the company of (most) men.' But by his love of pleasures and amusements he will come to grief. (7)
Then he begins to act cruelly against movable and immovable beings, and he kills living beings with a purpose or without. (8)
An ignorant man kills, lies, deceives, calumniates, dissembles, drinks liquor, and eats meat, thinking that this is the right thing to do. (9)